Caminos de Agua’s mission is to provide open-source water solutions for communities at-risk on our aquifer in Central Mexico, and leverage those solutions for others confronting similar water challenges throughout the world.

They work in partnership with local communities, leading research institutions, and other diverse actors to innovate and implement water solutions that create adequate access to safe, healthy drinking water supplies.

Caminos de Agua is a registered 501(c)(3) nonprofit in the U.S. as well as a Mexican Asociación Civil (A.C.).

In Caminos de Agua, they strive for obsolescence. If they say access to safe and healthy water is a basic human right (which it is), then inherent to our goals is a yearning to cease to exist. To be irrelevant and redundant. To be obsolete. So we start by trying understand why something so fundamental is so elusive for so many. 

A water filter cannot solve illness caused by water-borne pathogens. If it could, a third of the global population wouldn’t be lacking access to safe drinking water. A technology is a tool, and unless it is designed for those who need it and owned by those who use it, it is a fairly useless tool. 

They firmly believe that generating lasting and meaningful impact on drinking water supplies is dependent on the intersection of low-cost, proven technologies with an implementation model driven by the local community actors who use them.